Pro Tip: Never drive while dog.
[Found here.]
Tag: WIN
Saturday Matinee – Lindy Hop Showdown, The Wrecking Crew, Tommy Tedesco & The Memphis Group
Pure awesome. Girl in the stripes gets my vote [via].
“The Wrecking Crew” recorded some killer stuff, and you’ve likely never heard of them because they weren’t named “The Wrecking Crew” until 1990. Their peak years were 1962-73 when they worked with Phil Spector. They weren’t a solid unit as the musicians came and went, but the music WAS solid, no matter who was sitting in at the time.
Tommy Tedesco, one of the greatest session musicians ever, was a member of the post-defacto-named Wrecking Crew. Tedesco was one of those rare people who, if told something was a musical instrument, could play it flawlessly.
Now about “The Memphis Group.” Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Al Jackson & Booker Jones provided the backup for some amazing recording artists, but you already knew that.
Have a great weekend, folks and we’ll see what happens tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 514 – Tree Trimming by Hand, Tree Trimming Trapeze, Brute-Force Tree Trimming & Hand Trimming by Tree
Lizard Dance with Jazzhands
Vote for Bobby!
[Found here.]
Christmas at the Proctologist’s Office
[Found here.]
Employee Of The Month Hot Links
The Fallacy of the Heap. One hair does not make a beard, therefore a beard doesn’t exist.
Walk like an Egyptian. The Cleverlys cover The Bangles.
Talk like an Architect. Say stuff like this and everyone will go “Wow.”
Bear pants for only $50 here.
Highway 51 Blues – Curtis Jones recorded it sometime in the late 1920s or 1930s, and it was covered by Bob Dylan in 1962. (Jones also toured with a minstrel show.)
I have a digital collection of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time that I obtained entirely by accident. Guess what No. 1 is (and it wasn’t recorded by Muddy Waters).
Now guess the name of the band that made No. 2 on that list.
No peeking.
In the lyrics of those 500 songs, the words love, I’m, oh, know, baby, got and yeah had the most usage in order of frequency, so if you’re a songwriter, “Know, baby, I’m got love, oh yeah,” is a winning phrase.
Bunkessa just informed me that she was named “Employee of the Month” where she no longer works. AWESOME.
[Top image from here. No idea who she is, but she’s pretty and obviously deserves the Award.]
[Updated top image for privacy reasons. New image found here.]
I ordered a small pizza with pineapple…
[h/t Nate L.]
Best Pants Ever.
[Found here.]
Spontaneously Mutating Hot Links
The Weasel War Dance is a colloquial term for a behavior of excited ferrets and weasels.
The Russian Revolution occurred 100 years ago. “Harsh Realities of 1917 Revolution in Paintings of a Petrograd Police Officer” captures some of it.
North Korean defectors speak. Read between the lines because a lot is understated (by necessity). If these defectors’ identities are ever revealed, three generations of their families would suffer punishment.
“During planting and harvest season, we would wake up at 4 a.m. and walk three hours to reach the farmland. We’d take a little break for lunch or a snack, then work until 8 p.m. before walking home again. Doing the weeding was the hardest because we had to get rid of them by hand. And we’d buy beans from the market and make tofu that we’d sell from our house. Our profit was less than 5,000 won [60 cents at the black market rate] a day. But because the bean price fluctuates, sometimes we were left with nothing at all.”
Farmer from Hoeryong, escaped 2014.
“Who was America’s first President?” The answer is obvious.
New technology allows you to swing through a waterfall without getting wet.
The National Lampoon Suicide Hotline.
Germany is No. 3 for internet domain name ownership by country.
Before I die I want to see Rome.
[Top image from here. h/t Alan U.]
Tacky Raccoons 